Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
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4 additional translationsASV
Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; Let us solace ourselves with loves.
WEB
Come, let us take our fill of love till morning. Let us delight in loving caresses!
YLT
Come, we are filled with loves till the morning, We delight ourselves in loves.
DBT
Come, let us revel in love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with loves.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentProverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.
- Author
- Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
- Date
- Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.